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Part 2 SCircumstances in which court may entertain application for financial provision
2(1)Subject to sub-paragraph (4), if the jurisdictional requirements and the conditions set out in sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively, are satisfied, the court may entertain an application by one of the former civil partners or former ostensible civil partners, (here “A”) for an order for financial provision.
(2)The jurisdictional requirements are—
(a)that A is domiciled or habitually resident in Scotland when the application is made,
(b)that the other former civil partner, or former ostensible civil partner, (here “B”)—
(i)is domiciled or habitually resident in Scotland when the application is made,
(ii)was domiciled or habitually resident in Scotland when A and B last lived together in civil partnership, or
(iii)when the application is made is an owner or tenant of, or has a beneficial interest in, property in Scotland which has at some time been a family home of A and B, and
(c)where the court is the sheriff, that when the application is made either—
(i)A or B is habitually resident in the sheriffdom, or
(ii)property mentioned in sub-paragraph (2)(b)(iii) is wholly or partially in the sheriffdom.
(3)The conditions are that—
(a)B initiated the overseas proceedings,
(b)the application is made within 5 years after the overseas determination takes effect,
(c)the civil partnership (or ostensible civil partnership) had a substantial connection with Scotland,
(d)A and B are alive when the application is made, and
(e)(taking Part 3 of this Act to have been in force) a court in Scotland would have had jurisdiction to entertain an action for dissolution or annulment of the civil partnership, if such an action had been brought immediately before the overseas determination took effect.
(4)Where the jurisdiction of the court to entertain proceedings under this Schedule would fall to be determined by reference to the jurisdictional requirements imposed by virtue of Part 1 of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 (c. 27) (implementation of certain European conventions) or by virtue of Council Regulation (EC) No. 44/2001 of 22nd December 2000 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters, then—
(a)satisfaction of the jurisdictional requirements set out in sub-paragraph (2) does not obviate the need to satisfy those so imposed, and
(b)satisfaction of those so imposed obviates the need to satisfy those set out in sub-paragraph (2).
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